16 players coming from Noob Alliance, Phoenix GaminG and Tech Morph were banned for account sharing violations in an announcement in April 2020. Based on an appeal by Sampath Widushan, and upon further investigation, the voting members of the Sri Lanka Esports Association have voted in favor of removing the ban on Sampath Widushan.
Riot Games announced earlier yesterday the global release times of its new team shooter game – Valorant, with gamers in Sri Lanka now being able to download the game from the official website.
Speaking about the release the Publishing Head (South Asia), Sukamal Pegu had the following to say:
“Riot Games is highly committed to providing India and rest of the South Asia region with an excellent gaming experience. While you’ll be joining the worldwide launch on June 2, the official servers which will support Middle East & South Asia will come later in the year.
Players in South Asia will be playing on the South East Asia servers (for now), and though you will experience a higher ping, you’ll still be able to engage in enjoyable competitive battles. Make sure you register with your actual home country and original Riot ID to make your future server transition easier!
Our ِِregional social handles will soon be launched. Keep an eye out to get the latest updates.”
The game had a successful closed beta run that ended almost a week ago during which Gamer.LK successfully conducted a Weekend Gaming session for the title with almost 25 teams signing up to take part.
Previously, Riot had announced that they will be making many improvements to the game leading upto the launch, including a new Agent that will be released sometime after the game’s global release. Revealing a trailer a few days ago, Riot revealed that the agent is called Reyna and teased her individual abilities as well.
Unfortunately, all experience and progress earned in the closed beta will be reset when the game releases later today and all players will have to start their grind from scratch.
To get Valorant yourself you need to first have a Riot account. Register for a new account here if you haven’t got one already. The game is now released so head to the official Valorant website to download the Riot launcher. After getting the launcher, install the game and let it download. The closed beta had a file size of around 5-8GB so its safe to expect a similar size on launch. The installation process will also install the Valorant official dedicated anticheat software called Riot Vanguard which will always continue to be running in the background of your PC. The software cannot be uninstalled separately but you can turn it off by exiting the process in the taskbar at any time. However, you will need a full PC restart if you were to launch Valorant without it running.
A detailed list of what has changed in the game and the patch notes are available at https://playvalorant.com/en-us/news/game-updates/valorant-patch-notes-1-0/.
Update 02/06/2020:
The Women’s Cyber Games event is organised with the strategic goal of getting more Women into Esports. Gamer.LK will take necessary action in its power to protect ALL Women participants from bullying and toxic behaviour regardless of their clan.
Gamer.LK in an effort to promote Esports to women gamers in the country organises the annual Women’s Cyber Games championship, featuring multiple popular Esports titles played in the country. The event in 2019 received 200+ registrations, and that grew to double in 2020 with over 500 registrations. Chosen titles which have more than 8 teams are considered eligible to be included in an overall clan award, which is presented at the end of the tournament to the best performing clan. COD4 and CSGO, with 5 and 3 teams respectively did not reach the minimum threshold to be included in the points system. Therefore these matches were played as exhibition matches in order to provide the registered teams an opportunity to compete with other women-only teams, a chance they would not get in any other tournament in the country.
Consisting of some of the top tier women-FPS players in Sri Lanka, Team Sparkle from Tech Morph and Vendetta from Noob Alliance fought their way into the finals of CSGO team event. Team Apostrophe from Tech Morph and Team Elementrix from Noob Alliance reached the finals of the COD4 team event.
Due to delays in new players readying-up for tournament participation in the early rounds, the finals of the event was pushed back 2 hours beyond the scheduled time. Due to this time change, Team Apostrophe of Tech Morph was unable to participate during the re-scheduled time. In addition, Team Elementrix of Noob Alliance was unwilling to play on another day. With no finals being played, the COD4 team exhibition event was called off with no result.
On the 31st of May, the CSGO match between the two finalists commenced and proceeded smoothly just beyond half time. Shortly thereafter major disruption was caused to the nA Teamspeak channel by Tech Morph member Phanta. He had joined the nA team channel, disrupted the players and spam pinged them to the point they were unable to play further. This caused severe pause delays to the match, and both teams informed referees that they are no longer willing to play the match. Therefore due to non-completion of the finals, the CSGO team exhibition event was called off with no result.
Gamer.LK thanks the admins of Tech Morph in assisting in the investigation of the disruptive behaviour. Action will be taken against Himath “Phanta” Hettige by Gamer.LK and the Sri Lanka Esports Association in due course.
Gamer.LK has announced the 2nd annual Women’s Cyber Games ‘20 played completely online. The first Women’s Cyber Games Esports tournament dedicated to female Esports athletes was held last year with more than 200 players registering for it.
Registrations were open across 15 titles from the 13th of May for Sri Lanka women Esports athletes and gamers to showcase their skills in a competitive setting this year. More than 500 girl gamers registered for the event.
Team Games:
Call of Duty 4
Counter-Strike: GO
Mobile Legends: BB
PUBG Mobile
Individual Games:
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty Mobile
Clash Royale
Counter-Strike: GO
Dota 2
Free Fire
League of Legends
Mario Kart Tour
Mobile Legends: BB
PUBG Mobile
Real Cricket
The Women’s Cyber Games Championship ’20: Online is sponsored by Red Bull. The preferred Snack Partner is Perera & Sons.
Stay tuned with Gamer.LK for more news.
Samsung Online Esports Showdown successfully concluded last Saturday the 9th of May with Noob Alliance coming in 1st place while Maximum Esports was ranked 2nd and Phoenix GaminG taking 3rd. After placing 5th at Sri Lanka Cyber Games 2018, this is the first time Maximum Esports made its way into the top 3 of a tournament. In the recent past, Phoenix GaminG and Noob Alliance have been in close competition to bag awards such as the National Best Clan Award and SLCG. With Gamer.LK’s introduction of mobile Esports titles to tournaments, Sri Lankan clans have been in a race to recruit the countries best mobile talent to strengthen their ranks. Younger clans like Wolf Gang Esports have shown great promise with these new title additions, having placed 4th overall at the Showdown.
Counter Strike: GO
1st place: ZEGG Esports (No clan)
2nd place: Sum Ting Wong (Phoenix GaminG)
3rd place: Revolutionary Gamers (Maximum e-Sports)
Clash Royale
1st place: thor (Noob Alliance)
2nd place: Salmaan (Maximum e-Sports)
3rd place: Umesha Pina (Wolfgang eSports)
League of Legends
1st place: R [ 3 ] D (Phoenix GaminG)
2nd place: Phase (Noob Alliance)
3rd place: Lanka Lions (Phoenix GaminG)
Mobile Legends
1st place: Lost Boys (Noob Alliance)
2nd place: Angry Apes (Noob Alliance)
3rd place: IDK GAMING (Wolfgang eSports)
Rainbow Six Siege
1st place: L2K (Union Gaming)
2nd place: Team Area69 (Victrix Esports)
3rd place: Team Mwaha (Maximum e-Sports)
Dota 2
1st place: The G-Men (No clan)
2nd place: Solan Esports (Phoenix GaminG)
3rd place: Vicious And Delicious (Maximum e-Sports)
PUBG
1st place: Anonymous (No clan)
2nd place: SHY MILITARY (Tech Morph)
3rd place: LK Bananas (No clan)
Call of Duty Mobile
1st place: Wrecking Wolves (Wolfgang eSports)
2nd place: DXGeneration A (Phoenix GaminG)
3rd place: THE MOB (No clan)
Free Fire
1st place: Renagados – A (Alpha Esports Club)
2nd place: DARK GHOST – A (Alpha Esports Club)
3rd place: Scavengers – B (Alpha Esports Club)
Call of Duty 4
1st place: Team iwnl (Maximum e-Sports)
2nd place: Chaos (Noob Alliance)
3rd place: Noobs With Attitude (Noob Alliance)
Stay tuned with Gamer.LK for more news.
Call of Duty 4 was the last title played at Samsung Online Esports Showdown where nA – Chaos met M – eS – Team iwnl in the finals. M – eS – Team iwnl was able to beat nA – Chaos with a score of 2-1.
nA – Noobs With Attitude placed third after beating TM – Team Misfits in the third-place decider.
1st Place: M – eS – Team iwnl
– Tharusha ‘A l u m : >’ Lakshan
– Sameera ‘F!R3.’ Warnasooriya
– Chathura ‘MANDUKA’ Sampath
– Musashi ‘Carlos’ De Krester
– Isuru ‘PEACE’ Abeykoon
– Pathum ‘jaffer’ Jayathilake
2nd Place: nA – Chaos
– Navod ‘Cyanide’ Bopitiya
– Sameera ‘Svtue’ Ramanayake
– Eranda ‘Garfield’ Madushan
– Lahiru ‘Sonic’ Gayan
– Chinthana ‘Chimpy’ Prasad
3rd Place: nA – Noobs With Attitude
– Ruvin ‘Ghost<3’ Kularatne
– VIshal ‘Dash’ Perera
– NIsal ‘Lucifer’ Jayasundara
– Sasitha ‘Sylaxx’ Weerathunga
– Tharindu ‘Hope’ Yapa
Stay tuned to Gamer.LK for more news.
The event is sponsored by Samsung and MSI Gaming.
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